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Self Culture
i
Pretty Party
A pretty allair of the week end
waa the benlit bridge party given
at the home of Mr-. E- T. Yates
by the Self Culture club of the city.
A profusion of red roses and pop
adorned the rooms where
guests were entertained. Twenty
one tables were appointed for auc
tion and contract bridge. A delicious
refreshment course of pie and coi
fee was served before playing b>
gan
In the game.' of contract. Mis.
Eberline was winner of high ore
trophy. H E. Watkins, second high
and Miss Cecils Rice, third Mrs. O
E. Brown was awarded first higii
score in auction bridge and Mrs.
John Hunter received second. Third
score award went to Miss Loura
Underwood The cut prize was re
ceived by Miss Elizabeth Rowe and
Mrs. Otto Manske was winner o*
door prize.
Mrs. Lee Vance and Mrs. D. E. A<
fbrd were prize winners in the
domino games.
The lovely gifts were donated by
Edelstem s. J. C. Penney and Com
pany. Bollaek's. Capitol Theater.
Hargroves Model Laundry. Lack
Bcr's. Mrs. A G Melnnis. Oriental
Gift Shop and Dorfman’s
k. - • •
rTk.
Charivari
bor Couple
friends ol Mr. and Mrs. A B.
Walker, who were recently mar
ried. literally swooped down up
on the couple at their h ,;ne on
Ihe Southmost road a tew evenings
ago for an old-fashioned elm man
in which they -threatened'' to
Separate the couple tor the ni^iit
Mr. and Mrs. Walker led their
friends a merry chase, but both
were finally caught. Mr. Walke;
being given an impromptu duck
ing in a resaca and playfully taken
to jail where he spent several
hours, not knowing the where
abouts of his wile. The morning
hours lounri the young couple to
egther again.
Included in the party were Dean,
Juanita, and Arwila Adams Car
rol and Vida McMinn. Latina
Drumrtght. Eugene Stewart. Lee
Smith. Mr. and Mrs Earl Adams
Velma Drumnght. Mrs Homer
Gray. Paul Drumnght and J. W
Copenhaver.
Mrs. Walker w*> before he:
marriage Saturday. Jan. 28. Miss
Oleeta Adams, daughter of Mi
and Mrs W. E. Adams. The mar
riage ceremony was quiet and
simple and wa.- performed by Rev.
John Oyer of the Christian Mis
sionary Alliance church at h.»
home on Adams street in the pres
ence of a few friends. The bride
was gowned in a becoming blue
street dress. Witnessing the cere
mony were Miss Vida McMinn.
Rev. I. O. Huddleston. Lavina
Drumnght and Eugene Stewart
iC-Xchan^c Is
()pcn Mornings
The Woman's Exchange, sponsor
ed by the Woman's Guild of the
Church of the Advent, was openeo ,
Monday morning for business anc»
will be ojien each morning until
noon durum the week and all day
on Saturday. Anyone may con
tribute to the exchange as it !s
at. undenominational project.
Delicious homenmde cakes, pies,
breads and roll* will be made <*
specialty for the morning hours
There will also be salads and pre
pared meats lor croquettes, the
entire idea being to oiler e«:ly
prepared foods in a delicatessen
style. The exchange is tL-o an out
let for vegetables, poultry, outlet
and eggs and fruits, providing »
way to earn "pin money "
Tlie new location is a: l2tli and
; Washington street, the econd
door from the corner.
The Woman s Guild is also tak
ing orders lor Easter eggs and have
appointed committees lor the
Easter sale to be held ui March
Anyone desiring taster eggs may
place the order with guild mem
bers
Fay Hannah Honored
On 10th Oirtlulav
One ol tlie imx-t delightful par
ties of the season that given in
honor of Miss Pay Hannah on her
10th birthday and held in the
chamber of commerce park Nine
guests were present.
Tlie table had • pretty cover
and was centered with a bouquet of
roses. Delicious refreshments were
served after which stones were
told and m*u> games were played.
\ 9
Gue^t Speaker \i
Mis>ion Meeting
Mrs. Volney W. Taylor was
guest speaker at the meeting Sat
urday of the American .Association i
of University Women held in Mis
sion. She spoke on the civil rights
of women
Previous to the meeting. Mrs.
Florence Hayes, president of the
association, was hostess at a
luncheon.
Bake Sale rian>
Are Completed:
Final plans lor thr bake sale to be
held Saturday in the space next to
Hargrove’s Book Store by the Al
tar Society of the Sacred H art
church were made Monday after
noon at the meeting of that group
held in the rectory. The ladies ate
to offer for sale cooki s. cakes, pies,
candies potato salad, deviled ->kss
They are also taking orders for
cakes lor ' Valentine's Day and ,
Washingtons Birthday. 1
THE SICK LOOK FOR AND NEED DAINTY MEALS
THE other day I was in the
tubercular ward of a great
public hospital. A winter
day was waning to twi
light, and the ward, never too
cheerful, was even grimier and
duller and more shadowy than it
bad seemed on an earlier visit. It
reeked of carbolic disinfectants,
and the hospital smell of "up"
patients whose woolens and slip
pers and habits are those of the
sick and indifferent.
It was live o’clock, and tbe sup
per trays were being distributed.
They were being placed beside the
beds of delicate, frail, sickly girls
and women whose long dreary day
was going to be followed by a
feverish and uncomfortable night.
On the white, lifeless trays
were white plates of cool mutton
stuck with candlewax gravy — it
looked like candlewax anyway —
cool pale boiled potatoes, creamed
carrots, two slices of pale bread
beside a square of salt-specked
butter, and a magenta mould of
patent jelly.
Anything less appetizng — any
thing more completely repellent
to the jaded and weary senses of
the sick I cannot imagine. Twenty
minutes later, when the trays
were boing hustled out as they
had been hustled in. I was not sur
prised to see that most of them
had hardly been touched. One
patient ate only her potatoes; she
ate them as one would a peach,
dipping them in salt. "They’re
food anyway.” she said
Two of these invalids told me
that the city allowance for food,
in the ward, was one dollar a day.
Later I asked a doctor about it.
and he confirmed this unofficially;
he •’believed” the city allowed one
dollar a day per capita in the
hospital. He agreed that the food
the patients got was ”a scandal.”
"But of course.” he added, "lots
of ’em are too sick to care?”
‘‘But the tuberculosis patients?”
“Yes, I know I’ve seen their
trays. It's too bad.” the busy
doctor agreed. “Somebody's mak
ing a fat thing of it.”
And there the case rests.
Are things like that in YOCR
city hospital?
As a veteran housekeeper,
budgeteer, manager, cook. 1 know
this; at one dollar a day. buying
supplies in large quantities, with
the discounts given to municipal
institutions. I could have had on
those trays a bowl of smoking
chicken soup with rice in it, a
brown crisp chop, a stuffed potato,
an artichoke, a bowl of fresh let
tuce nicety dressed, a slice of fig
podding with bard sauce, a but
tered biscuit and a few raisins, or
an orange, or a bar of peanut
brittle.
“And it would be ridiculous to
pamper ward patients that wav.*'
Well, perhaps you are right. But
who is being pampered on the
hundreds and hundreds of dollars
that SOMEONE is profiting by this
robbery of the sick and helpless,
and who gains anything when
good mutton, good potatoes, good
bread are ruined in the handling,
and thrown away untouched?
Judging by my own experience
with chronic invalids, the trays
are a very important part of the
cure. Sloppy tea. miserable cool
coffee mixed and sugared ten cold
corridors away, and left standing
awhile before being carelessly
spilled into cups, monotonous
repetition of lukewarm, uninvit
ing foods not only don’t HELP a
cure, they definitely retard it.
Could our great organizations
of women do a finer thing this
year than to investigate, each one
in its own city, the diet conditions
of those big institutions we call
"free" hospitals, but which of
course are not free at aJl. for our
taxes pay for them, and we are
all responsible for their mainten
ance and for the things that go
on inside them.
Y'ears ago, in an eastern city,
the discovery was made that seven
separate families were accepting
bribes from the big commission
merchant that supplied the city
hospital. These families wore be
ing supplied free of charge with
the choicest cuts of beef, with
turkeys, duck, filets, shellfish,
delicacies of all sorts. And as a
return courtesy no attention what
ever was paid to the protests of
the patients, who received the
wretched leavings of whatever
meats and fish the merchants hr.d
left.
Even the simplest meal can be
delicious, if it is decently served,
with the hot things hot. and the
cold things cool. Just milk-toast,
smoking hot, or a cereal, with
top-milk or thin cream In the lit
tle pitcher: Just a cool mixed
By KA THLEEN NORRIS
KATHLEEN NORRIS
Pay after day
to glanre at foods
glazed and rold,
greasy, stale, flavorless.
si tin nit'll on a tray and
served with a hundred other
trays is roally to inflict a heavy
hurdm that the sick in our city hos
pitals neetj nol hear.
salad, with corn bread and apple
sauce and a glass of milk can be
a feast. But day after day to
glance at foods glazed and cold,
greasy, stale and flavorless, slam
med on a tray and served with a
hundred other trays is really to
inflict upon some of our less for
tunate brothers and sisters a
heavy burden that they need not
hear.
All very well to say piously that
the earthquake or the broken leg
are God's will. But cruelty, stu
pidity, graft, robbery in handling
the helpless are NOT His will, and
if we lessened the man-made evils
in this troubled world of ours to
a point where we could really
SEE God's will, instead of glibly
discussing it, we might be amazed
to disof.ver that there was previous
little suffering and illness included
in the divine plan for man.
So bring this matter up at your
uext club meeting, appoint a com
mittee and put your best women
on it, to investigate. As tax
payers you have every right to
investigate, and you will find hearty
cooperation from the authorities.
IF the authorities are sure of
their own rectitude. Remember
that doctors and nurses can’t talk,
and patients, while they are pa
tients. can’t talk. In many of
these big instlutions there is a
dictator beside whom Mussolini Is
merely a little white lamb gum-,
holing on the green, and no one
in his or her neighborhood, while
KNOVnNG that dishonesty and
i orrujjiion and stupidity are ram
pant in the wards, dares denounce
the auful person in power.
Ask. the nearest trained nurse
if conditions weren’t like this
when she took her training, or
did hospital work. She’ll tell you
of tbs* despot who silenced and
terrified all her subordinates, and
ruled her waole world with a rod
of iron.
Hut Just the same, these people
can tie deposed. And any hospital
hrsd whose stewards are serving
uninviting and monotonous meals.
and charging the city or state one
dollar a day for them, is unfit for
his job.
Years ago a certain war-time
major found himself with seventy
cents a day to spend for the food
of each one of some four thousand
men. The men lived well on
roasts, stews, baked sweets,
macaroni, two vegetables every
meal, great puddings, cereals,
cream, bacon, eggs,—I have with
my own eyes seen these boys un
able to finish their hot cakes at
breakfast and their pie at dinner,
and STILL there was enough
money left at the end of each
month for a real *-bust.” with
turkey, cabaret, bonbons, ices,
pastries. To be sure, some of the
officers we knew didn’t seem to
find this surplus at the end of the
month, but that’s neither here
nor there. The fact remains that
when hospital trays are disgusting
it is bad management and not
lack of money that is at fault,
and that if the bland managers of
these departments deny this, and
say that it is the patients who
are unreasonable and exacting,
and that nothing would satisfy
them, then the said managers
should be removed.
Find out about it. anyway. Per
haps conditions are different in
your city. Perhaps some fine
woman is managing YOUR tuber
cular ward with all the genius of
a fine character and a real gift
for management. Perhaps your
sickly, wretched, lonely, dying
girls and women are enjoying
nice little trays, hot and simple
and arranged with imagination
and interest. Or perhaps yoor
city only allows fifty cents a day,
or forty cents.
But my challenge remains the
same. Even on fifty cents a day
I could feed consumptives nutri
tiously and appetizingly. Even
on forty cents a day they would
have hot soup, good salads, good
breads, plenty of milk, plenty of
simple desserts. Pertain well-to
do middle-aged women, whose
own housekeeping runs easily
now. could well volunteer for this
service; go to the hospital daily,
look over the supplies and the
trays, see the patients personally,
dear the whole matter up.
Anyone of us. caught In the
Siberian mountains, forced to ra
tions for a whole winter, would
live gladly, philosophically, on
black bread, cheese, beans, canned
milk. But to be ill and helpless,
in a rich big city, and to know
that the tax-payers are doing their
share, and still to feel the gnaw
ing miseries of hunger, is quite
another thing.
Kathleen Norris Says:
Anyone of us, caught in the Siberian mountains,
forced to rations for a whole winter, would live
gladly, philosophically on black bread, cheese,
beans, canned milk. But to be ill and helpless, in
a rich, big city, and to know that the taxpayers are
doing their share, and still to feel the gnawing
miseiies of hunger, is quite another thing.
* * * *
Judging by my own experience with chronic
invalids, the trays are a very important part of
the cure. Sloppy tea, miserable cool coffee mixed
and sugared ten cold corridors away, monotonous
repetition of lukewarm, uninviting foods not only
don’t help a cure, they definitely retard it.
* * * *
Could our great organizations of women do a
finer thing this year than to investigate, each one
in its own city, the diet conditions of those big
institutions we call free hospitals?
{Copyright. /.‘W.t. hy the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
A rtists To i
Appear In
Harlingen
HARLINGEN. Feb 7— Valley
music lovers will enjoy the pro
gram ol classical music which has
been arranged for Tuesday evening
at 8 p m. and winch is to be pre
sented by Stanley Addington,
baritone of McAllen and Mrs.
Charles Huntley, pianist ol Har
lingen. at the Municipal Audito
rium. sponsored by the Methodist
Missionary Society.
Opening the program will be
Preach Not Me Your Musty
Rules' by Mr. Addington, the
words ol which are Ironi Miltons
Com us Mrs. Huntley will play
• The Sunken Cathedral'’ by De
bussy depicting the modern school
or harmony. In this ana tlu*
atmosphere ol the catliedral. the
tog. the chimes, gongs and echoes
are created by the composer.
Other selections, both vocal and
instrumental will be included m
the varied program.
• • •
Si \ Ic Show And
Program TucmIrv
A style show and program will
be presented Tuesday evening at 8
o'clock in the junior college audi
torium and a cordial invitation has
been extended to the public. Miss
Myrtle Jennings and Mrs. Anita
Colvin are in charge and they htv*
;rrangrd a program of fashiurs,
musical numbers and dances.
The models display gowns ot the
color.. period down id the pres
ent styles, along with the
modeling oj children's clothes. Tne
dresses were made cither by no
first or second classes in sewing
with the exception of the period
costumes.
Its
Tourist Party
Tuesday Xi^lit
A card and game party will be
given at the Tourist room in the
chamber of commerce Tuesday eve
nine at 8 o'clock for the Winter
tourists in Brownsville. A corcial
invitation is extended all tourists
and tables will be appointed for
various card eames and table games
The committee in charge has also
arranged various ether entertain
ment.
• • •
WORK PRACTICED
A stated meeting of Hope Chap
ter. Order of the Eastern Star -Jias
he’d Monday at the Masonic Tem
ple. R.utine business was transact
ed and the work of the order was
practiced. Mrs. W. J. Vertrees.
worthy, matron, presided.
1
hederation 01
Cluirclies Will
Observe Lrayer
The Presbyterian Women's Aux
iliary will be host to the three o';i
er church women’s unions for .hr
World Dav of Prayer, Friday. Match
3 it was announced at the business
session held Monday afternoon in
the church parlors. An executive
board meeting preceded the reg
ular session.
Mrs. Ci. W. Moot hart presided
and Mrs. Cleve Tandy led the de
votional taking as her subject the
14th chapter of Johns. Mrs. A. B.
Niven offered prayer
During the business session. Mr-.
L. A Boorve was elected president
and Mrs. Grider Perkins, treasurer.
• • •
Christian Ladies To
Serve Lenin Supper
Circle two of the Central Christ
ian Church missionary society will
serve a delicious and well balan
ced menu at the penny supper
Wednesday from fi to 7:30 p. m
in the dining hall of the church.
More than 100 persons have been
served each week as t he penny sup
I>ers gain in popularity. The novel
arrangement of charging a penny
a serving is used and the supper
ls ser\ed cafeteria style. Everyone
is muted
Samedi Club
Entertained
Miss Elizabeth Brown entertain
ed Samcdi dub member* and sev
eral extra guests in a most gracious
manner Saturday afternoon. The
looms given over to the hospitality
and where two tables were ap
l>ointed for the game*, were graced
with radiant roses At the con
clusion of the series of games,
high score trophy was awarded
Miss Jane Scanlan.
The hostess served delicious cor
fee and cake to five members and
the following guests, Mary Mar
garet Fv,x. Charlotte Barber and
Laurita Grider. The club will have
as hostess this week. Miss Ruth
Ernst.
• • •
M rs. Set>tt \ i-ii
Here At Week End
Mrs. Florence Scott of Rir
Grande City was a houseguest tu
Mrs. Volney Taylor over the w?ek
end. Mrs. Scott, who is second
vice-president of the Texas Fed
(•ration of Womens clubs, is also
county superintendent of schools
in Stare county and is known for
feature articles she has written.
Benefit Party
Is Planned By
Club Federation
Belli auction and contract bridge
will bo played at the benefit tarty
being sponsored by the City Federa
tion of Women's clubs Friday at
8 p. nt m the showroom in the
Cameron Hotel according to those in
charge.
Reservations arc being made for
table groups or individuals and all
the federated clubs are coopera'nig
in this event. Guests attending ate
asked to bring their own cards.
Trophic, for men and women core
winners, tor those receiving cut and
door prizes, will be presented. There
will be refreshments at the close of
the games.
• • •
I'm Attend Meet
Of Association
The Valley Superintendents and
Principals asocial ton will meet in
the La Peria high school Tuesday
night and dinner will be served at
the cafeteria prior to the meeting.
Supt j. W. Gotke. R. J. Bingham,
and Mrs. w. R. Jones will attend
from Brownsville.
• • •
Mr and Mrs. H B Griffin of Mc
Allen were overnight guests Moi
dav of Mrs J J Closner. They re
turned to their home Tuesday.
World Prayer
Day March 3
The City Federation of Churcn
Societies will observe the World
Day of Prayer with an appropriate
prog lam at the First Presbyterian
chinch. Friday, March 3. Luncheon
will b< served free In the church'
dining hall and everyone interest
ed u united to attend.
The observance was started sev
i eral years ago by the Home Mls
I sion and Foreign Mission Societies
and, has been car ried out each year
Foot church societies, the Presby
i tenan. Methodist. Baptist and
Christian join in observance of the
Wo 'Id Day of Prayer in Browns
ville.
• • •
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Business Meeting
l!he Women's Missionary Union
of die First Baptist church held ;he
monthly business session Monday !
aitornoon m the church parlors with
about 25 women in attendance. Mrs.
j R. T Kyzar presided and routine
; business matters were transacted.
Next Monday, the union will hold
a jiennv day social and Royal Ser
vice program at 3 p m.
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Juvenile Club
< )rganized In
Science Clas>s
The Juvenile club composed ol
girls and boys of the Social Science
class was organized Friday after
ncon. The following officers were
elected: president. Aurora Baker;
vice president. Guillermo Mancera;
secretary, Ernesto Sierra; treasurer,
Estefana Garza; reporter. Joscla
Baker and program chairman.
Gladys Armstrong.
On the program committee are
Rebecca Salazar, Valentin G.ivito,
Guillermo Mancera. and Gladys
Armstrong. Mrs. Mohle is advisor.
Other members of the club ere
Librada and Maria Luisa Va'.li,
Celia Cavazos. Helen Dufult. Lui)e
Garcia. Maria Morales. Maria Luisa
Sandoval. Aurora Pena. Consuelo
and Olwia Rodriguez. Dora V :< z.
Rosa Villanueva, Valentin Baker.
Fred Blanchard. Eduardo Lucid,
Manuel Martinez. Alberto Tre"U.o
and Jeorge Ralph.
This club is to meet every Friday
afternoon in Mrs Mohle s room from
2 to 3 o'clock.
X. V. P. S. Has
Program At Church
The Young People's Society of
the Nazarene church met Sunday
evening at the church on Grant
street when the following prog’-ym
was presented; songs. "The B-a'.
tiful Garden of Prayer" and “In
My Heart There Rings a Melody:"
prayer by Mrs. John Dorsett; les
son from the Gospel given on Asia
and Africa. Those taking part were
James Smith who told of the first
expedition into Asia proper; Mrs.
Ben Horner. Armenia; C H. *Ju!tz,
Nestorian: Carroll McMinn. Nes
torians in India; Vida McMinn.
Nestorians in China and Ruth Hor
ner Nestoriaas in Africa.
• • •
Delegate* To Church
Federation Xamed
The Woman's Missionary Society
of the First Methodist church held
a business session Monday after
noon in the church parlors. Mrs.
C. W. Colgin read the scripture
lesson and Mrs. Sam Hughston
offered a prayer. The ladies sang
•Blest Be the Tie That Binds"
with Mrs. Grover Singer at the
piano Delegates to the City Fed
eration of Church Societies were
appointed as follows: Mesdames C.
C. Stewart. Sam Hughston and j
B Samuels. Announcement was
made of the World Day of Prayer
to be observed by the church fed
eration Friday March 3.
• •
P -T A MEET
Patrons of the West Brownsville
Parent-Teache association are ur
ged to attend the meeting to be held
Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock
at the school.
Nuptials Are
Solemnized
LA FERIA, Feb. 7.-AI a quiei
ceremony, Mis* Ruth Staflord and
Robert M Arlington were united
in marriage at 9 p. m. Saturday in
Mje otlices of Judge C. C. Raymond
o: this city. The bride was gowned
in black velvet with white acces
sories and turban to match. Her
bouquet wa;> of sweetheart roses.
In the wedding party were ths
parents 0: the couple, Mrs. Maude
Bynum. Mr. and Mrs. Lloya
Sprinkle and Mr. and Mrs. V. B.
O'Neil.
The bride is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Stafford of st»;r
Benito and attended the
Benito high school. Duruig the
past several months she has lesidea
in Harlingen where she was witn
tlie Bynum Beauty Shop. Ml.
Arlington is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Arlington of La Feria.
He is a graduate of Breckenridge
li.gii school and is an interior
decorator 111 Harlingen where he
has resided three years.
The couple is at home at 210 West
Adams in Harlingen.
• • •
WEDNESDAY
Self Culture club will have as
hostess. Mrs. Volney Taylor.
Ladies Aid of the Lutheran
Church is meeting at. 2 p. m at
the home of Mrs. Elsie Weiske on
the military highway.
Penny supper at the Central
Christian church from 6 to 7:30 d
m.
Wednesday Bnsca and Bunco
club with Miss Domitila Gonzales.
Mrs. Harold Gray is entertaining
the Wednesday Tournament Bridge
club.
Wednesday bridge chfj with Mrs.
W. E. McDavitt.
Mrs. A. W. Buchek is to be ho*t
css to Las Tcjas club.
Lucky 13 bridge club with Mrs.
Monroe Swiliey.
• • •
CLUB TO MEET
A business meeting of the Business
and Professional Women's club will
be held Tuesday at 7:30 p. m. at
I the chamber of commerce and ell
members are requested to be pres
ent by the president Miss Julia O’
Brien.
• •
Col. and Mrs Francis W. Glover
of Fort Brown left Monday night
lor their new station at Charleston.
S. C. Mrs. Glover planning to visit
with her daughter. Mrs. Charles
Harvey in Oklahoma before Join
ing Col. Glover in Charleston. The
Glovers were at the post here for 3
years.